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...proved one of the most versatile voices in the business, announcing everything from soap operas (Just Plain Bill) to the World Series, a lifelong Republican who managed the campaign radio and TV arrangements for Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952; of a heart attack; in St. Croix, Virgin Islands...
...General Harkins has contributed greatly to this sense of confidence. He seems to have the qualities of stability, imagination and guts that should pay off in Viet Nam. His war service has ranged from staff posts to the front line, and his chestful of decorations includes France's Croix de guerre, Russia's Order of the Fatherland, and South Korea's Military Order of Taeguk, as well as the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Harkins seldom shouts. If an officer does not measure up, he is quietly shipped out. One colonel remembers that the worst...
...after only one year at St.-Cyr (France's West Point), Salan went to the front, was wounded in action, won the Croix de guerre. After the war, he was sent to the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon just in time to be plunged into fighting against the Djebel Druse tribesmen and be wounded again. Next, he served in French Indo-China as administrator of a corner of jungle near the borders of China, Burma and Laos. In the solitude of his post. Salan dabbled in Oriental philosophy and astrology, is said to have experimented with opium. These predilections...
Mediterranean naval base of Toulon. A towering look-alike of the Charles de Gaulle of yore, Philippe has shown many flashes of his father's courage as well, holds a Croix de guerre with palm for his World War II exploits...
...road Republican Caleb Boggs, 51, has never lost one since and as Delaware's Governor managed to coexist in cozy comfort with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. A campaign manager's dream-he comes from a family of small farmers, won five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre in World War II combat-affable Lawyer Boggs is said to know more Delawareans by first name than any other man in the state...